Thursday, March 17, 2016

Obama Nominates Stealth Leftist for the Supreme Court

President
Barack Obama nominated Merrick B. Garland, who currently serves as Chief Judge
of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to
replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The White House's strategy was to pick
someone whom they believe will be politically difficult for Republican senators
to simply ignore – a stealth leftist recast as a “centrist.” The White
House even created a new Twitter handle, @SCOTUSnom, to rev up activists seeking to pressure Senate
Republicans into giving President Obama's nominee, in Obama's words, "a
fair hearing and an up-or-down vote.” [more...]